slr2moons | A little shigoto update and some IRL stuff. :B

On Friday night, I uploaded the final pages of Saiunkoku vol 5. This is actually the last volume I will be lettering. The new letterer has the font list and the Photoshop file I made of ganked royal palace screen tones that the mangaka loves to use in her backgrounds. He's ready to go whenever it's time for vol 6! If you've been reading Saiun up to now, I do hope you'll continue to do so. I know I'll be picking up vol 6+ myself, for both the story and lovely art. :3

Skip 27 and Natsume 11 are proceeding nicely, if a bit behind schedule. 5 pages a day of each will bring me in under deadline with some comfortable padding. ^^

I should be receiving three more Naruto chapters in the next couple weeks! I wonder if Naruto will actually be in the pages this time, as in the last set of 3 he was only in a couple of flashback panels. I didn't even have any Sakura or Sasuke, it was all supporting cast! *finds that amusing* There was this one really pretty pic of Gaara-sama that made me happy, though. Heeeee! <3

I've allllmost bought my tickets for my trip to visit the hometown this summer. I'm waiting for some frequent flier miles I purchased to go through, then I can officially buy my tickets. (They're currently on hold.) And it worked out thanks to limited options and the quirks of my airline's frequent fliers program that I'll be flying first-class when I return to Oregon. I've...never done that before. O.o I feel like I need to dress up. =O Heels and a nice blouse and slacks. Makeup, too. *gulp*

I always manage to forget SOMETHING when I'm booking a flight because there are so many variables, and I managed it this time. My return flight is on the 2nd Tuesday of September...which is Book Club Night. Oops. T.T I will be literally flying in the air for the hour of Book Club. T.T How could I have forgotten??! There goes my perfect attendance record. It had to end eventually, I suppose. I'm glad it's for something fun like a trip to the hometown, rather than me being sick. And September is a fantasy book month...I already have the book, too. *wilts* Damn it...

For anyone interested, I figured out why Hoth was leaking. Apparently, he has to be level. And by level I mean LEVEL-LEVEL, as in a wrinkle in the old towel I have underneath him is enough to make the condensation land outside his evaporation pan. :/ I'm very glad that the day after he leaked so badly, I went to the grocery store and bought castor-coasters, the biggest pan they had (a huge 15 x 18 cookie sheet--and the last one in stock) and a turkey baster. Hoth is now sitting on the castor-coasters, inside the pan (it's barely big enough, BTW) on top of a folded old towel, on top of my folded old shower curtain. And it's a good thing too, as Hoth was dry all the previous week since he last leaked so badly--until today. The pan and turkey baster saved my bacon. And to tell you how fragile his being level is, all I had to do was bunch the towel up a little bit under the pan on his right side...and the leaking stopped. Go figure.

Now I know how to keep him from leaking, and can nip it in the bud next time it happens. Yay! Mystery solved!! Though I have to wonder at the sucky engineering that lets such a tiny amount of tilt as a flattened TOWEL WRINKLE tip him enough to leak. Geez, people! Did you sleep through your practical engineering applications classes or something???